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Thursday, 28th October 2010

The Benefits of Bug Bounties

12-year-old Alex Miller has received a $3000 check from Mozilla for finding a major bug in the Firefox browser. The San Jose Mercury News, reporting on Alex's reward, noted that Mozilla recently upped its bounty from $500 to $3000 to make it more worthwhile for people to spend their time looking for bugs. Alex apparently found something in an…

Hack Audrey Watters comments

Facebook Launching Friendship Pages; You'll Love It, Except for When You Don't

Facebook announced this morning that it is launching a new feature, the Friendship Page. The Friendship Page will display public Wall posts and comments between two friends, photos in which both are tagged, Events they RSVP'd for together and other information. You'll be able to see Friendship pages between yourself and a friend, or between any…

Social Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Sprint Mobile Wallet Offers Developers New Way to Monetize Apps

At this week's developer conference, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced a new service for Sprint customers: a mobile payment solution called Sprint Mobile Wallet. The system will come pre-loaded on new Sprint handsets and will be made available for download from "Sprint Zone," a pre-installed app featuring news, tips, tricks and a curated collection of…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

Microsoft's PDC Keynote with Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia

Microsoft is holding its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) on its Redmond, WA campus this week. The event kicks off with a two-hour keynote hosted by the company's CEO Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia, Microsoft's president of its server and tools division. Microsoft generally holds these events when it wants to tell its developer community about…

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Are Google and Samsung Announcing a "Nexus Two?"

Google and Samsung may be announcing a "Nexus Two" smartphone at the mysterious press conference being held on November 8th in New York City. The conference will feature the launch of a "new Android device," which is now suspected to be the next Google experience phone, meaning a phone featuring the latest hardware and most current version of the…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

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